Metal-fence tie.



No. 814,369. PATENTED MAR. e, 1906.

B. GRIFFIN.

METAL mecz: TIE.

APPIIIOA'I'IDE FILED JUNE 16, 1805 Inve nto r.

Att ornys Griff Witnes s I i a??? U NIIED STAT'EQ PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN GRIFFIN, OF ADRIAN, MICHIGAN, ASSIUNOR, BY

TO ALANSON M. KEENEY, ()F

MESN E ASSIGNMENTS, MICHIGAN.

DIRECT AN D AN N ARBOR.

METAL-FENCE TlE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 6, 1906.

Application filed June 16, 1905. Serial No. 265,571.

To (LU whom it inlay concern.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN GRIFFIN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Adrian, in the county of Lenawee and State of Michigan, haveinvented a new and useful Metal-Fence Tie, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to wire-locks for interlocking crossed wires, andhas been particularly designed for use in connection with wire fences.

It is an important object of the invention to em lo an ordinary U-shapedstaple to form t e lock and to interengage the ends of the staple in asimple and improved manner, so as to enable the employment of dies forclamping the lock u on the fence-wires when set u to form the ence.

With these and other objects in view the present invention consists inthe combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter morefully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and articularlypointed out in the appended claim, it being understood that changes inthe form, proportion, size, and minor details may be made within thescope of the claim without departing from the s irit or sacrificing anyof the advanta es oIthe invention.

In tie accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the100 of the present invention applied to connect a runner-wire and astay-wire of a wire fence. Fig. 2 is an en view thereof. Fig. 3 is aninverted Ian view. Fig. 4 is an inverted rear view.

ike characters of reference designate corresponding parts in each andevery figure of the drawings.

In the accompanying drawings, 3 designates an upright stay-wire, and 2 alongitudinal wire of a wire fence.

The lock 1 of the present invention is in the nature of a substantiallU-shaped wire staple, which has its close end applied against one sideof the longitudinal wire 2 with its sides passed across the oppositeside of the stay-wire 3, the end portions of the staple being extendedpast t e stay-wire and then bent inwardly across the firstmentioned sideof the runner-wire 2. Where the 5o sides of the staple or look passacross the runner-wire, the side 4 passes between. the side 5 and therunner-wire and then is rebent or hooked about the side 5, as indicatedat 6, the other side 5 being hooked or bent back around the side 4, asindicated at 7, from which it will be understood that the extremities ofthe lock are crossed across the runnerwire and are then intercngaged orhooked without beii hooked around the runnerwire. As indicated in Fig.2, it will he noted that the pressure of the dies kinks the fencewires 2and 3 and bends the staple, so that the side 5 overhangs the runner-wire2, while the side 4. and the extremity 6 lie beneath the wire therebyeffectually preventin vertical displacement or looseness of the loc Fromthe foregoin description it will be noted that the initial orm of thelock prior to application to the crossed wires is that of a U- 7c s apedstaple, and when applied and looked upon the wires the free extremitiesof the lock are interen aged or bent around one an other without a sobeing interengaged with either of the fence-wires, thereby materiallysimplifying the form of the dies for producing the Ice and likewisesimplifying the look, while at the same time insuring an effectiveconnection of the ends thereof.

Havin fully described the invention, what So is claime is- Thecombination with crossed wires, of a staple-shaped wire-lock straddlingone of the wires with its sides passing across the opposite side of theother wire, and thence bent in- 8 5 wardly and mutually crossed acrossthe firstmentioned wire, the extremities of the lock being bent inopposite directions around the respective opposite sides of the look.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as 0 my own I have heretoaffixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

BENJAMIN GRIFFIN.

Witnesses:

R. B. ROBBINS, CHAS. H. Loans.

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